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PATBNTED JULY 31, 1906.

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APPLIGATION FILED JULYS. 1905.

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APPLIGATION FILED JULYs. 1905.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY WORDEN BROWDER, OF BEAUMONT, TEXAS.

HOTEL-OFFICE DlNKlEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1906.

Application filed July 3. 1905. Serial No. 268,166.

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`My invention relates to improvements in that class of devices or contrivances for noting or indicating, for instance, the stay of a hotel patron, preferably designated by me as a hotel-office dinkey. j

Said invention has for its object to effect the aforesaid end in a simple, accurate, and expeditious manner; and it consists of structural features substantially as hereinafter fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by the claim.

' In the accom anying drawings, illustrating the preferre embodiment of my invention,fFi re 1 is a vertical section produced longitu inally through the machine or invention. Fig.. 2 is a plan view thereof. Fig. 3 shows detached views of the movable indicia-tape or strip-bearing rolls.

In the carrying out of my invention I provide a suitable housing or casing 1, within which are arranged or journaled two rolls 2 2 at the ends thereof, respectively, and intermediarily of said rolls are arranged or jour- 4bons or strips bein naled three additional rolls 3 3, 3 intergeared, as at 3b 3 3d, for conjoint actuation, to impart to the rolls 3 3 planes of rotation from right to left and from left to right for a purpose apparent later, the driving power being delivered through the roll 3EL in any suitable way. Encompassing the rolls 2 2 and connected to the rolls 3 3 are stri s or ribbons 4, of suitable material, as wood, en, paper, or metal, bearing or having inscribed or marked thereon certain indicia 4, the thirtyone days of a month, or the same strung out or roduced in duplicate, being printed or indicated thereon, as shown. Said rolls 2 2 are suitably equipped with annular collarlike partitions 2a to guide and properly hold apart said-ribbons or strips 4 as movement is imparted thereto via the rolls 3, said ribadapted to be moved thereby in either ection longitudinally, the urpose of which is obvious.

A ditional or further strips or pieces of suitable material 5 5a 5b 5, preferably of the number shown, also bearing or having marked thereon certain indicia, as resently disclosed, are suitably applied and) secured within the casing or housing 1 with relation to the movable indicia strips or ribbons 4, as shown, and with the end in view as presently explained. Said additional indicia strips orpieces have marked or printed thereon as captions the words Breakfast, Dinner, Suppen and Lodgin respectively, preferably directly under wich and forming a subdivision for each such caption is drawn a horizontal or right line 5'. Also belovsr and a suitable s ace from' said line are produced, preferab y, two parallel horizontal lines 5bb, and drawn through the spaces thus lined olf upon said strips or pieces is a numt ber of vertical lines 5a", extending from the line 5a clear to the bottom edge of said strips or pieces, dividing up said lined-off s aces into subdivisions 5X. In these latter o each such piece or strip are the word Date and the capitals or initials B., D., S., and L., suggestive of the same words forming the captions of the several said strips or pieces, as will be readily noted. Again, each of said indicia strips or pieces has produced thereon crosswise of the vertical lines 5a", all the way down to the bottom thereof, numerous horizontal lines 5ba, thus dividing up the remaining portion of such strip or piece into sundry lined-ofl' subdivisions 5C. In these latter subdivisions are arranged tables of figures or numerals each based upon dividing up a day into quarters-t. e., the gradating of the value or unit of each subdivision by uniform mathematical progression, a quarterfraction-the initial Jfraction of each succesl sive top row of subdivisions of said strips being accordingly removed one subdivision to the right, as shown.

It will be noted that the word Date of IOO IIO

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latter-noted date. The length of the .stay of such patron will be given by referring to the numeral 2 under ,the eneral caption of Breakfast, the date and meal-time arrival of said patron, and to the figures in `vertical alinement with the initial or capital S. 4of the same general caption and in horizontal alinement with the same numeral 2, the meal-time of the date ofthe departure of said patron, said figures being and their unit .of value rbeingtdays. Consequently the stay .of such patron is that numher ofdays the utility of which is obvious in this connection.

It is' also noted :that .in lieu of producing the 'headings or .captions comprising the Words and initials above .described and the tables of figures upon continuous strips .or pieces the former may .be printed or other- Wise produced Vupon separate ,pieces or strips from .those bearing vthe latter.

lt is apparent that other indicia than that herein-before described may be .employed connection with a fixed sheet with other headings or captions thereon in .connection with .the lmovable indicia-stripsand means for actuating .the same and :the purposes .of my .invention be carried `out.

Latitude is allowed as vto .details herein, since they `may 'be changed asicireumstances suggest Without departing from .the spirit of my invention.

l .claim- A device of the character described, com- .rising a number of fixed strips or members liaving thereon -the following captions: Breakfast, Dinner, u per and Lod ing, respectively, the fg lowing series o initials: B., D., 8., and .L. a series thereof being arranged under'each of said captions, and columns or `tables of fig ures or units arranged in alinement with eachof saidcaptions and initials, `vandan@ xrable continuous or endless strips .or members, each bearing ,the date-numbers suggestive of a calendar month, said A,columns or tables ,of figures each, having its unit .of value based u on a fraction of one-quarter, accordingly t e :top .or initial rows .of said columns .reducing from the lfull lor maximum ,number .of units .to one less for each successive row, `the final top row space .containing gthe or one unit, as herein disclosed.

'In testimony whereof l ,afli-X ,my signature in ,presence .of itwo subscrihingsvitnesses.

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